Creating standard text fields

…In the previous movie, we created a new field group,…inside of Advanced Custom Field.…And now that we have created that group we can access it, just like we…would any other type of content inside WordPress by going to Custom Fields.…And here you see a list of all your field groups, and…from within this list, we can select the list we want, in this case, host info box.…Once I'm inside the field group for post info box, I need to add new fields, and…I do that simply by clicking on Add Feld.…For each field you create you must set three values.…

You have to give the field a label.…This is the text label that will display inside the editor.…So here, because this is the info box field group,…I'm going to set the first label to info box title.…So that will be the title that displays at the top.…When you set a field label and click anywhere or…tap down to the next section, the system will automatically give you a field name.…Now this is the custom field name that we saw previously in the course, and…it's a machine readable name, meaning it has no spaces.…

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7/24/2014

By default, WordPress posts and pages have a limited set of data-input fields. But sometimes you need to collect and display more data than what is available. This is where Advanced Custom Fields comes in handy. Using this plugin, you can create new custom fields for your posts, pages, and custom post types. Staff author Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows you how to set up your own fields and display the content on the front end of a site, connect posts with relational fields, and move the fields from a development environment to a live WordPress site.